A Comparison of Simulation Methods for Rarefied Gas Flows

  • Simulation methods like DSMC are an efficient tool to compute rarefied gas flows. Using supercomputers it is possible to include various real gas effects like vibrational energies or chemical reactions in a gas mixture. Nevertheless it is still necessary to improve the accuracy of the current simulation methods in order to reduce the computational effort. To support this task the paper presents a comparison of the classical DSMC method with the so called finite Pointset Method. This new approach was developed during several years in the framework of the European space project HERMES. The comparison given in the paper is based on two different testcases: a spatially homogeneous relaxation problem and a 2-dimensional axisymmetric flow problem at high Mach numbers.

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Author:Jens Struckmeier, Konrad Steiner
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-6982
Series (Serial Number):Berichte der Arbeitsgruppe Technomathematik (AGTM Report) (91)
Document Type:Preprint
Language of publication:English
Year of Completion:1993
Year of first Publication:1993
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2000/10/17
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Mathematik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 510 Mathematik
Licence (German):Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011